Easter

This year for Easter we got this great idea from my friend Alison to make our Easter eggs glow in the dark. We had the general idea of what to do and through trial and error we made it happen.








We put the egg dye and the 'juice' from glow sticks together and then soaked our eggs. We didn't realize that the 'glow' wouldn't last long this way. It lasted for a bit but not long. We dyed them around 5 and then sat down and taught Alexis and Jacob how to play the game "B.S.". We had a lot of fun with fibbing and learning to read each other's faces.








We waited until it was dark to pull out our super cool eggs only to find out that the glow had worn off. Luckily I had a plethora of glow sticks that I had been saving and so we emptied more glow juice into a bowl and rolled the dyed eggs in it. Then we got to business.




First we made a track to roll/race them down. Our backyard has a small hill so we used boards and ran them down the hill and voila! we had our track. Then we through them at a target that we painted with glow in the dark paint and stapled to our fence. It was a ton of fun to see them explode!!

This picture is blurry but you can see how cool the eggs look while they are holding them.



Our glow in the dark eggs reminded us of how things glowed in the movie Avatar





Then we sat by the fire, jumped on the trampoline wearing our glow sticks and rounded out the night with a camp-out on the trampoline. Dusty and the kids slept outside while I stayed inside anxiously awaiting the Easter Bunny's visit.




Sunday morning was filled with finding all those eggs the Easter Bunny hid and seeing all the fun stuff he left in our baskets.

We had a really nice Easter celebrating Christ and his Atonement. We are eternally grateful to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for his sacrifice for us.